Dynamic Online Service Authorization for Vehicle Driving Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle systems fail to provide drivers with important online information during driving without compromising safety, as current solutions either block all online services once a certain speed is reached, leading to a lack of beneficial information availability.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that utilize an electronic control unit, graphical output device, and communication interface for wireless data interchange with a server to dynamically authorize online services based on driving state, incorporating sensors to detect driver conditions like tiredness and alcohol consumption, ensuring only non-distracting information is presented.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If online services are blocked when vehicle speed exceeds a particular value, then driving safety is improved, but availability of beneficial information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments online services into different categories based on their suitability for display during driving. Important safety-related information (queue reports, black ice warnings, severe weather forecasts) is separated from distracting entertainment content (television programs, DVD playback). This segmentation allows selective authorization where critical information remains accessible while distracting content is blocked, resolving the contradiction between safety and information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the authorization of online services based on real-time driving state parameters including vehicle speed, driver condition (tiredness, alcohol consumption), and route characteristics. As driving conditions change, the system adapts which services are authorized, allowing beneficial information during safe conditions while blocking services when safety risks increase. This dynamic approach enables both safety improvement and information availability to be optimized according to actual conditions.
2Loss of information
If online services are authorized during driving, then information availability is improved, but driver distraction increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors driving state parameters (vehicle speed, driver tiredness via eyelid movement frequency, alcohol consumption via alcohol sensor) and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust online service authorization. When feedback indicates safe driving conditions, beneficial information is made available. When feedback shows increased distraction risk, services are restricted or blocked. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures information availability is maintained only when it does not create harmful distraction.
Solution Approach 2:
Different authorization levels are applied to different online services based on their specific characteristics and the current driving context. Rather than a blanket restriction, the system applies local quality control where each service is evaluated individually against safety criteria. Critical safety information receives high-priority authorization while entertainment services receive restricted access, allowing information availability without proportional distraction risk.
3Ease of operation
If sensor screens are used for graphical output, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor screen serves multiple functions: it displays online service information, provides tactile input for service activation, and integrates with driver monitoring sensors. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single integrated component, improving ease of operation while minimizing the increase in overall device complexity through functional consolidation.
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AI summary
A device for authorizing an online service during driving in a vehicle. Contents of an online service are authorized according to the vehicle state. The device includes an electronic control unit, a graphical output apparatus, and a communication interface. A system that includes the device and a server, which is not located in the vehicle and which is connected to the communication interface through a wireless connection for the exchange of data. A method, having the following steps: the vehicle state of the vehicle is detected. According to the vehicle state, it is checked if a requested online service or certain contents of a requested online service are authorized for display during driving. According to available or ascertainable data on the ability of the requested online service to be authorized during driving, the requested online service is either blocked or authorized in a limited or complete manner. The result is depicted on the graphical output apparatus.